Yes, I was doing something wrong: I was connecting to the localhost after instantiation. All better now.
Thanks for the tips! Scott On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Carsten Haese wrote: > > Then you're doing something wrong. The line > > s = smtplib.SMTP("mail.ispname.net") instantiates an SMTP instance and > connects it. Are you doing s.connect() afterwards? If yes, don't do > that, it'll try to connect to the local host, which is not an smtp > server. > > If you want to separate instantiation and connection, do this: > > s = smtplib.SMTP() > s.connect("mail.ispname.net") > > -Carsten > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list